2021-07-26 Sanger Online Data Carpentries Workshop

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Online

Jul 26-30, 2021

1 pm - 5 pm UTC+1

Instructors: Uma Arora, Annajiat Alim Rasel, Jannetta Steyn

Helpers: helper one, helper two

General Information

Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Good Enough Practices for Scientific Computing".

Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.

Where: This training will take place online. The instructors will provide you with the information you will need to connect to this meeting.

When: Jul 26-30, 2021. Add to your Google Calendar.

Requirements: Participants must have access to a computer with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).

Accessibility: We are dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. Please notify the instructors in advance of the workshop if you require any accommodations or if there is anything we can do to make this workshop more accessible to you.

Contact: Please email hn7@sanger.ac.uk for more information.

Roles: To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.


Code of Conduct

Everyone who participates in Carpentries activities is required to conform to the Code of Conduct. This document also outlines how to report an incident if needed.


Collaborative Notes

We will use this collaborative document for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.


Surveys

Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.

Pre-workshop Survey

Post-workshop Survey


Schedule

1
DateDayTime
Duration
LessonEpisode
2
26 July113:0000:15Housekeeping (15 minutes)
3
13:1500:30Project Organization and Management1Data Tidiness (30 minutes)
4
13:4500:152Planning for NGS Projects (30 minutes)
5
14:0000:15 BREAK (15 minutes)
6
14:1500:152Planning for NGS Projects
7
14:3000:303
8
15:0000:30Introduction to the Command Line1Introducing the Shell (30 minutes)
9
15:3000:15BREAK (15 minutes)
10
15:4500:502Navigating Files and Directories (50 minutes)
11
16:35End of Day 1
12
13
27 July213:0000:15HouseKeeping (15 minutes)
14
13:1500:45Introduction to the Command Line3Working with Files and Directories (45 minutes)
15
14:0000:154Redirection (45 minutes)
16
14:1500:15BREAK (15 minutes)
17
14:3000:304Redirection
18
15:0000:405Writing Scripts and Working with Data (40 minutes)
19
15:4000:15BREAK (15 minutes)
20
15:5500:306Project Organization (30 minutes)
21
16:2500:15Data Wrangling and Processing1Background and Metadata (15 minutes)
22
16:4000:152Assessing Read Quality (50 minutes)
23
16:55End of Day 2
24
25
28 July313:0000:15Housekeeping (15 minutes)
26
13:1500:45Data Wrangling and Processing2Assessing Read Quality
27
14:0000:303Trimming and Filtering (55 minutes)
28
14:3000:15BREAK (15 minutes)
29
14:4500:253Trimming and Filtering
30
15:1000:304Variant Calling Workflow (60 minutes)
31
15:4000:15BREAK (15 minutes)
32
15:5500:304Variant Calling Workflow
33
16:2500:205Automating a Variant Calling Workflow (45 minutes)
34
16:45End of Day 3
35
36
29 July413:0000:15Housekeeping (15 minutes)
37
13:1500:25Data Wrangling and Processing5Automating a Variant Calling Workflow
38
13:4000:05Introduction to Cloud Computing for Genomics1Why Cloud Computing (5 minutes)
39
13:4500:102Logging onto the Cloud (10 minutes)
40
13:5500:153Fine Tuning Your Cloud Setup (15 minutes)
41
14:1000:304Which Cloud For My Data (30 minutes)
42
14:4000:15Intro to R and RStudio for GenomicsBREAK (15 minutes)
43
14:5500:451Introducing R and RStudio IDE (45 minutes)
44
15:4000:152R Basics (80 minutes)
45
15:5500:15BREAK (15 minutes)
46
16:1000:452R Basics
47
16:55End of Day 4
48
49
30 July513:0000:05Housekeeping (15 minutes)
50
13:0500:20Intro to R and RStudio for Genomics2R Basics
51
13:0501:003
52
14:0500:15BREAK (15 minutes)
53
14:2000:303R Basics continued - factors and data frames
54
14:5000:554
55
15:4500:15BREAK (15 minutes)
56
16:0000:455Data Visualization with ggplot2 (90 minutes)
57
16:4500:15Complete Post-workshop SurveyEnd of Day 5
58
17:005Data Visualization with ggplot2
59
17:00
60
17:00XXProducing Reports With knitr (75 minutes)
61
17:00

Setup

To participate in a Data Carpentry workshop, you will need access to software as described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.

We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.

Install the videoconferencing client

If you haven't used Zoom before, go to the official website to download and install the Zoom client for your computer.

Set up your workspace

Like other Carpentries workshops, you will be learning by "coding along" with the Instructors. To do this, you will need to have both the window for the tool you will be learning about (a terminal, RStudio, your web browser, etc..) and the window for the Zoom video conference client open. In order to see both at once, we recommend using one of the following set up options:

This blog post includes detailed information on how to set up your screen to follow along during the workshop.

The setup instructions for the Data Carpentry Genomics workshops can be found at the workshop overview site

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